At the Shenyang Wucai Sunshine City Elderly Care Service Center, Mu Jinqi, the post-90 nursing supervisor, helps the elderly with daily rehabilitation training. Image courtesy of the interviewee

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In the Yingkou Elderly Care Service Center, Sun Yuxin, a 25-year-old nursing squad leader, has become the center's "baby bump". "This child is young and energetic, which brings more vitality to the retirement life of the caregivers." Speaking of Sun Yuxin, Li Yan, deputy director of the Nursing Department of Yingkou Pension Service Center, is "like a few treasures": this child is sweet and sweet, and he has never complained about feeding, massaging, changing diaper bags, etc., and his professional skills are also excellent.

For young people like Sun Yuxin, Zhang Lina, the director of the center, said bluntly: "If you come, you will want it, the more the better." She introduced that the center has 49 elderly care workers, with an average age of 0 years old, and is in urgent need of fresh blood to bring more vitality and vitality to the center.

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the demand for pension is also developing towards diversification and intelligence, and the corresponding demand for pension service talents and professional skills is also rising. So, what kind of talents are needed in the pension industry? What is the trend of professional skills? The reporter conducted an in-depth interview on this.

In addition to professional skills

Character is also very important

遼寧天灝企業管理服務有限公司董事長李天虎介紹，一名養老護理員需要掌握的基本技能包括打飯、喂飯、口腔清理、洗漱、翻身、餵藥、衣物更換、刮鬍子、打鼻飼、清理排泄物、床單更換清洗、輔助如廁、助浴、巡房、夜間智能系統值守等近30項事項。

The pension service industry has developed in the direction of diversification and intelligence, and there are higher requirements for pension service talents. Li Tianhu said that taking the company's current demand for elderly care service personnel as an example, with the launch of new equipment such as intelligent health data monitoring equipment, it is necessary for elderly care workers to be proficient in these equipment. At the same time, nursing homes bring caregivers to the south every winter, which requires nursing staff to have certain organizational and coordination skills. In addition, with the gradual increase in the number of elderly people who care for the elderly at home, the market demand for helpers who can provide services such as door-to-door procurement, cooking, bathing, medical escort, and psychological counseling is gradually increasing.

In addition to mastering technology, the pension industry also has requirements for the character of employees. Mu Jinqi, graduated from Shenyang Vocational and Technical College, majoring in smart health care service and management, is now a senior technician of elderly care workers. After working for a few years, he won the titles of "National Technical Expert" and "Liaoning Technical Expert". "Skills are easy to learn, but character is rare." Mu Jinqi admitted frankly that he grew up beside his grandparents and had a natural affinity for the elderly. After working for a long time, I feel that this is a warm job.

What talent the market needs

The school cultivates whatever talents

In order to cultivate the "new force" of pension services, school-enterprise cooperation is an important way to improve the professional level of pension services.

在瀋陽，養老服務專業已經形成由本科、專科和中專三個層次構成的人才培養體系。在瀋陽醫學院、遼寧醫藥職業學院等5所高校和瀋陽市中醫藥學校等10所中等職業學校，已開設護理、中醫康復技術、康復技術、智慧健康養老服務、老年人服務與管理、營養與保健6個專業，目前在讀學生有1萬餘人。

Yang Xiaoxi, a teacher of elderly service and management at Yingkou Modern Service School, said that since 2021, the school has carried out school-enterprise cooperation to train skilled talents for elderly service services. At present, students mainly learn about the life care of the elderly, basic care, rehabilitation nursing, planning and organization of elderly activities, geriatric nutrition, writing documents for elderly care institutions, etc., and also learn to master the use of some electronic intelligent devices.

Although there are successors to the elderly care service, the current 60 to 0 years old caregivers are still the "main force" to support the elderly care institutions. Through the mentoring of teachers, schools and pension institutions jointly strengthen skills training, promote the "main force" to study skills and take up posts with certificates, so that the pension service can reach a new level.

In Shenyang, the Colorful Sunshine City Elderly Care Service Center has built a professional and standardized nursing team by building a training system covering the whole career cycle of employees. "From induction training to management development, we have established a three-level talent training mechanism, which is the core guarantee for improving service quality." Ye Na, director of the nursing department, introduced that the training content includes new employee induction training, in-service employee skill improvement training, and management leadership training, covering all stages of employees' careers. Regularly organize and carry out nursing skills competitions to assess provincial and municipal standards, so as to improve the nursing knowledge and skill level of nursing staff.

I want to keep talent

There is also a need to optimize working hours and the environment

3月21日，在大連松朗養老院，27歲的張硯文一遍一遍地安撫著一位有認知障礙的老人，並幫老人重新調整身上的尿袋，清理灑出的尿液。

"It's not easy to do pension services, and it's even more difficult to retain talents." Wang Lingjuan, director of the nursing home, told reporters that the hospital specializes in providing nursing services for the elderly with cognitive impairment, and more than 00 elderly care workers are all young people born in 0 and 0.

Wang Lingjuan introduced that in addition to normal wages, employees also have "five insurances and one housing fund". The hospital adopts a flexible working hours system, with a maximum of 208 hours a day and 0 hours per month, and overtime pay for excess working hours.

The same is food and accommodation, Songlang Nursing Home specially places the staff dormitory 10 to 0 minutes walk from the nursing home, rather than in the nursing home. The purpose is to keep a certain distance between the work and life of employees, so that elderly care workers have their own living space.

Dalian Detai Health Care Industry Development Co., Ltd. not only creates a comfortable working environment for caregivers, but also pays attention to psychological stress relief. According to reports, they organize an online lecture for professional psychological counselors once a month to provide psychological counseling to nursing staff. Provide independent dormitories for nursing staff, equipped with independent toilets, air conditioning, Internet and other facilities to ensure the quality of diet. In addition, it provides a predictable career development plan for young people, so that those front-line caregivers with strong learning ability and outstanding professional skills can have room for career advancement.

Inject policy "boosters"

Improve the sense of professional acquisition of practitioners

In order to attract more young people to join the ranks of pension services and create a vigorous and energetic army of skilled talents, various cities in our province have played a combination of punches, improved the incentive mechanism for pension service talents, and took out "real money" to improve the salary of employees, and continuously enhance their professional happiness and sense of belonging.

In 14 years, multiple departments in our province jointly issued a document to adjust and improve the subsidy policy for graduates of elderly services and management to enter pension service institutions. The Provincial Department of Civil Affairs and other 0 departments proposed that in the career development channel, it is clear that high-skilled talents above the technician level can participate in team management and pass on skills with apprentices, and front-line nursing staff can be promoted to business management posts to break the "ceiling" of career development.

在瀋陽，一條條“真金白銀”的條款格外醒目：畢業生入職最高補貼6萬元，相當於普通護理員一年多的工資；高級技師每月補貼1000元，“以技提薪”提振信心。瀋陽實施千人培訓計劃，對養老從業人員全免費支援；舉辦職業技能競賽，“競賽表彰＋職業晉級”多重獎勵；選樹“優秀院長”“優秀護理員”，全面提升社會認同感和職業榮譽感。

2024年，大連進一步擴大補貼範圍，將符合條件的專業由19個增加到73個，本科、高職、中職依次可獲得5年6萬元、5萬元、4萬元的補助；將符合條件的工作內容由一線護理人員調整為從事養老護理服務人員。同時，補貼發放方式由滿5年一次性發放調整為按5年發放。這意味著，除了養老院給的工資，符合條件的年輕人可以每年再獲得1萬元左右的補貼資金。

Yingkou City proposed that the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress set up a "Caregiver Festival" to improve the professional recognition and social identity of elderly care talents. At the same time, improve and implement the system of entry rewards and subsidies and special post allowances, establish a professional title evaluation and skill level evaluation system oriented by morality, ability and performance, and continuously enhance the job matching, career attractiveness and career honor of pension service practitioners.

（遼寧日報記者 佟利德 見習記者 姜雪 智曼卿）

[Source: Northeast News Network]